European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up
Boring a hub the traditional way
Welding a tyre
Drawknife in use
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a rasp
Tyre nearly in place
A 12 spoked wheel
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Adzes awaiting handles
Checking the tyre circumference
Shaping with a drawknife
Cleaning up the felloes
Marking out a felloe
Shaping an adze handle
Wheel in position for the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up with the drawknife
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up
Shaped handles just made.
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Drawknife in use again.
Spot welding
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Tail vice and dog
An example of the wheelwrights art
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
A pile of iron hubs
Drawknife in use shaping
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding the tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
A taper auger
Using a press on the tyre
A few finishing taps
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Clamping the wheel down
A wheel in need of repair
Field gun wheels
Shaping with a rasp
Fitting the felloes together
Close up of the hub
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling down
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding a hub band
Welding a hub band
Second tyre nearly in place
Close up of the clamping
Initial shaping
The first stage in shaping
Cooling the tyre down
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding the tyre joint
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Detail of the wheel
Using a press on the tyre join
Cooling the hot tyre
Field gun wheels
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
The hot tyre in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Applying a hot tyre
Welding the tyre
Welding
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